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Series: Japan Library
This second collection under the 'Biographical Portraits' title, incorporates a further 20 studies of key personalities, including Edmund Morel, pioneer railway builder in Meiji Japan, Alexander Shand, an important figure in the development of Japanese banking, Lafcadio Hearn, the great interpreter...
Published February 16th 1997 by Routledge
Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series
Provides clear historical introductions to the six principal ethnic minority groups in Japan, including the Ainu, Chinese, Koreans and Okinawans, and discusses their place in contemporary Japanese society....
Published December 18th 1996 by Routledge
Examines the place of body practices and the management of emotions in Japanese preschools. Early childhood socialization is explored as a set of 'body projects': a series of practices undertaken (over time) to design the body according to prevailing cultural definitions and images....
Published December 15th 1996 by Routledge
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
One third of the Japanese female workforce are 'office ladies' and their training takes place in the many women's junior colleges. Office ladies are low-wage, low-status secretaries who have little or no job security.Brian J. McVeigh draws on his experience as a teacher at one such institution to...
Published December 4th 1996 by Routledge
A comprehensive glossary and reference work with more than a thousand entries on Shinto ranging from brief definitions and Japanese terms to short essays dealing with aspects of Shinto practice, belief and institutions from early times up to the present day....
Published April 10th 1996 by Routledge
Series: Japan Library
Personal account of one of the Westerners who helped build modern Japan (see also study by Pedlar - also available from Curzon Press)....
Published January 16th 1995 by Routledge
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
The issue of how Japanese society operates, and in particular why it has `succeeded', has generated a wide variety of explanatory models, including the Confucian ethic, classlessness, group consciousness, and `uniqueness' in areas as diverse as body images and language patterns.In Ideology and...
Published April 1st 1992 by Routledge
